intelligentsia

intelligentsia

English

Etymology

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija) or Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”). Doublet of intelligence.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛlɪˈd͡ʒɛntsɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛləˈd͡ʒɛn(t)si.ə/, /ɪntɛləˈɡɛn(t)si.ə/[1]
• (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛlɪˈɡɛntsɪə/[2]

Noun

intelligentsia (countable and uncountable, plural intelligentsias)

1. (politics) The intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

     It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.

Related terms

• unintelligentsia

Translations

intellectual élite

Albanian: inteligjencie (sq) f Arabic: أَنْتِلِيجِنْسْيَا‎ f (ʾantilijinsyā), أَنْتِلِيجِنْسْيَا‎ f (ʾantiliginsyā), أَهْل اَلْفَكْر‎ m (ʾahl al-fakr) Armenian: մտավորականություն (hy) (mtavorakanutʿyun), ինտելիգենցիա (hy) (inteligencʿia) (dated) Azerbaijani: ziyalılar (az) pl, intelligensiya Belarusian: інтэліге́нцыя f (intelihjéncyja) Bulgarian: интелиге́нция f (inteligéncija) Chinese: Mandarin: 知識分子／知识分子 (zh) (zhīshi fènzǐ), 知識界／知识界 (zh) (zhīshíjiè, zhīshìjiè) Czech: inteligence (cs) f Danish: intelligentsia c Dutch: intelligentsia (nl) f Estonian: haritlaskond, intelligents, maa sool Finnish: älymystö (fi), intelligentsia (fi), sivistyneistö (fi) French: intelligentsia (fr) f Georgian: ინტელიგენცია (inṭeligencia) German: Intelligenz (de) f, Intelligenzija f Greek: ιντελιγκέντσια (el) f (inteligkéntsia) Hindi: प्रबुद्ध लोग pl (prabuddh log) Hungarian: értelmiség (hu) Italian: intellighenzia (it) Japanese: インテリ (interi), インテリゲンチャ (interigencha), インテリゲンチア (interigenchia) Kazakh: зиялылар (kk) pl (ziälylar), интеллигенция (intelligensiä) Korean: 인텔리겐치아 (ko) (intelligenchia) Kyrgyz: интеллигенция (ky) (intelligentsiya), зыялылар pl (zıyalılar) Latvian: inteliģence f Lithuanian: inteligentija f Macedonian: интелигенција f (inteligencija) Mongolian: Cyrillic: сэхээтэн (mn) (sexeeten) Norwegian: Bokmål: intelligentsia m Persian: اینتلیجنتسیا‎ (intelijentsiyâ), روشنفکران‎ (fa) pl (roušanfekrân) Polish: inteligencja (pl) f Portuguese: intelligentsia (pt) f Romanian: intelectualitate (ro) f Russian: интеллиге́нция (ru) f (intelligéncija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: интелигѐнција f Roman: inteligèncija (sh) f Slovak: inteligencia f Slovene: inteligenca f Spanish: intelligentsia (es) f, inteliguentsia f, inteligencia (es) f Swedish: intelligentia (sv) c Tagalog: santalinuhan Tajik: зиёиён (ziyoyiyon), интеллигенция (intelligentsiya) Tatar: зыялылар pl (zıyalılar), интеллигенция (intelligentsiya) Turkish: entelijansiya, aydınlar (tr) pl Turkmen: intelligensiýa Ukrainian: інтеліге́нція (uk) f (intelihéncija) Uzbek: intelligensiya (uz), ziyolilar (uz) Vietnamese: giới trí thức

References

1. “intelligentsia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. Oxford English Dictionary (2007)

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Danish

Etymology

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Italian intellighenzia, from Latin intelligentia.

Noun

intelligentsia c (singular definite intelligentsiaen, plural indefinite intelligentsiaer)

1. intelligentsia

Inflection

Declension of intelligentsia

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	intelligentsia	intelligentsiaen	intelligentsiaer	intelligentsiaerne
genitive	intelligentsias	intelligentsiaens	intelligentsiaers	intelligentsiaernes

Synonyms

• intelligens c

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Italian intellighenzia, from Latin intelligentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈintelːiɡentsiɑ/, [ˈin̪t̪e̞lːiˌɡe̞nts̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -entsiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): in‧tel‧li‧gent‧si‧a

Noun

intelligentsia

1. intelligentsia

Declension

Inflection of intelligentsia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		intelligentsia	intelligentsiat
genitive		intelligentsian	intelligentsioiden intelligentsioitten
partitive		intelligentsiaa	intelligentsioita
illative		intelligentsiaan	intelligentsioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		intelligentsia	intelligentsiat
accusative	nom.	intelligentsia	intelligentsiat
	gen.	intelligentsian
genitive		intelligentsian	intelligentsioiden intelligentsioitten intelligentsiainrare
partitive		intelligentsiaa	intelligentsioita
inessive		intelligentsiassa	intelligentsioissa
elative		intelligentsiasta	intelligentsioista
illative		intelligentsiaan	intelligentsioihin
adessive		intelligentsialla	intelligentsioilla
ablative		intelligentsialta	intelligentsioilta
allative		intelligentsialle	intelligentsioille
essive		intelligentsiana	intelligentsioina
translative		intelligentsiaksi	intelligentsioiksi
instructive		—	intelligentsioin
abessive		intelligentsiatta	intelligentsioitta
comitative		—	intelligentsioineen

Possessive forms of intelligentsia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	intelligentsiani	intelligentsiamme
2nd person	intelligentsiasi	intelligentsianne
3rd person	intelligentsiansa

Synonyms

• älymystö (intellectuals as a group)
• (in East Europe): intelligentsija

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.te.li.ʒɛnt.sja/

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Noun

intelligentsia f (plural intelligentsias)

1. intelligentsia

Further reading

• “intelligentsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

intelligentsia f (plural intelligentsias)

1. intelligentsia (intellectual élite)

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• intelligentia

Etymology

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”).

Noun

intelligentsia c

1. intelligentsia

Declension

Declension of intelligentsia
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	intelligentsia	intelligentsian	—	—
Genitive	intelligentsias	intelligentsians	—	—

References

• intelligentsia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)